You use your brain much as you would use a radio crystal

Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

Trusting fear, while fearing trust and happiness often creates a less than happy life.

Even in front of nature one must compose.

The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.

When I came to America, I was really into all the things people eat here. . . . People called me Muffin because I would eat muffins all the time.

When you think of how a child experiences a series of events, it feels, for so long, like she's looking at everything from behind this glass and it's obscured.

You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.